EbylHusker

ffs, stop spamming. You're a goddamn admin not a newbie poster.

Sorry, why are you spamming new threads?

I'm sure they will let people "vent" for a while. It's an unfortunate, and frequent, uneven application of the rules. It's not like there's only one or two posts in here that are blatant flames.

I see the mods have decided flaming is acceptable now.

The message these riots send: "We're tired of being treated like second class citizens, viewed as constantly dangerous by cops, and so on. So here we go burning down our own community, firing weapons at police, and so on. Just ignore those parts and please don't see us as dangerous or not part of normal society. Derp. Thanks."

I do not have any empathy or sympathy for people that riot in response to a GJ decision that, by all sane reasoning, appears to be appropriate and just. Not only that, there are many people looting and burning their own community. Of course, the people rioting are not intersested in facts or whether the justice system worked in this case. f#*k them. As far as I'm concerned, they can be arrested and tear gassed every night for the next week if they so choose.

Notice I said rioters, not protestors.

You're absolutely right that some bias creeps in. However, even without that bias, officers have a lot of backing from the law when justifying deadly force. People disagree on how right or wrong that is, which isn't my point here. There are plenty of arguments for and against it. But that, combined with the stuff you posted, is a pretty potent mix.

You missed one of the major contributing factors. Court decisions in the past have given officers a relatively wide lattitude in justifying the use of deadly force. So in fact, it is not insanely easy to indict an officer for use of deadly force. I'm not making any judgements on those court rulings or their applications today with this post, but facts are facts. And those court cases are a big, big reason that officers are rarely indicted on the use of deadly force.

Either Wilson is a fast healer, or he wasn't necessarily hit that hard.

 

But I get it. Heat of the moment. Guarantee that 95% of us would do the exact same thing based on reflex alone.

 

I wasn't saying Wilson is guilty. All I'm saying is I feel like no progress has been made in the last 3 months. Of course, "progress" would have only been made if the grand jury had decided to indict Wilson. It's a miserable situation for everyone involved.

The justice system worked. I'm not sure how "progress" is the GJ bringing a ridiculous, unfounded indictment. There is a lot of progress that can be made on the larger issues surrounding all this that doesn't involve the GJ essentially saying, "Well, even though there's no good reason under law to actually indict, f#*k it, because hey, some people are mad. Whatevs."

 

then you think the rioters are idiotic?

 

Of course they're idiots. Burning down local businesses, cars, yelling "f#*k the police," firing shots around cops (possibly at cops), etc, makes them f'ing idiots. Protestors are not idiots - rioters are.

The shittiest thing about this decision is that we are right back at square 1. As long as we don't fully know if Officer Wilson was attacked, there will never be peace on the matter.

The evidence the GJ saw is being released to the public. I've yet to see or hear anything about this entire thing that warrants an indictment. No sane prosecutor would ever want to take this to trial because it's an automatic loss. There's just nothing there. It was tossed to a GJ because public outcry was so ridiculous that they were left with no other viable option.

 

Pretty sure Morgantown got the tear gas recently, and I'm willing to bet most of them were white. Hmm.

 

 

You're right.

 

I'm aware. Thank you.

Uh, you do realize it has been widely reported that tear gas was used in Morgantown, right? lmfao

Pretty sure Morgantown got the tear gas recently, and I'm willing to bet most of them were white. Hmm.

I was watching when that catch happened and still can't believe it. Unreal.

Saw Interstellar at the IMAX again. I'm even more impressed with the movie the second time around. It'll proably get another couple viewings from me before it leaves IMAX. The docking scene toward the end is probably one of the most epic, ridiculously awesome things ever put on film. Here's an approximation of the music, since the actual music from that scene is a mix of a couple tracks.

Sweet, I was wondering when we'd get SE's aquarium guy in here. Thanks for the info.

It does for many people on the internets. HB is a great example of that. And you posted this on HB.

I'm starting to wonder if we have become apathetic. If most people's frustration level isn't at an all time high then that would mean we'very come to expect the failures. Unfortunate.

Or people that have been around a while have aged/matured some and realized coming unhinged when a sports team loses is not worth it.

 

If the person you know has published, peer reviewed works refuting AGW, then please post which those are and in what journal. If they're published, they're out there anyway and there's no reason to hold that back. What a person says in interviews or on a personal basis is pretty much irrelevant when compared to their published works on a topic. So let's have the paper titles and journals they were published in.

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I don't recall saying he is published on this topic.

 

As I suspected. The end.